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                                         satheesh 
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                                             Posted - 2014-06-17 : 10:46:42
                                            
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                                            | Hi I have field 'Destination' as below Destination >\nDestination: AreaTwo<br />\n<br />\n------<br />\n*Found Re26<br />\nDestination: AreaOne<br />\n<br />\n------<br />\n*F/>\nDestination: AreaTwo<br />\n<br />\n------<br />\n*Found RI have to remove all character before 'Destination:' and after '<br />\n'i.e i need output like belowDestinationAreaTwoAreaOneAreaTwoHow to remove these character. Any help will be highly appreciated.ThanksRegards,SG | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     Ifor 
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                                            Posted - 2014-06-17 : 11:35:14
                                          
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                                          | [code]WITH StartStrAS(	SELECT SUBSTRING(Destination, CHARINDEX('Destination:', Destination) + 13, 255) AS Destination	FROM YourTable)SELECT LEFT(Destination, CHARINDEX('<br />\n', Destination) -1) AS DestinationFROM StartStr;[/code]  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     sz1 
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                                            Posted - 2014-06-17 : 11:57:12
                                          
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                                          | Select Substring(yourfield,4,11) as n1,  Substring(yourfield, 17, 7) as n2,  Substring(yourfield, 88, 7) as n3,  Substring(yourfield,  146,7) as n4  From dbo.YourTableWe are the creators of our own reality!  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     visakh16 
                                    Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2014-06-21 : 05:22:55
                                          
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                                          | [code]SELECT STUFF(LEFT(Destination, CHARINDEX('<br />\n', Destination + '<br />\n') -1),1,CHARINDEX('Destination:',Destination)+13,'') AS DestinationFROM StartStr[/code]------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/https://www.facebook.com/VmBlogs  | 
                                         
                                        
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